As if the National Post didn’t have enough (financial) trouble already. Now the paper seems to have decided to destroy its last remaining cash cow, its Full Comment blog. Full Comment has been very successful and popular since it was launched. Readers love going to the newspaper’s blog to comment on the stories of the day. Many of the posts (i.e., reposted editorials, columns and articles from the day’s print edition, as well as some extra material) receive 30, 50 or even around 100 comments. As of today, however, the articles published on the Full Comment blog have had the......
From its very first day, the National Post has stood out for one thing: hiring the sloppiest wannabe writers/journalists in Canada. For most Post writers, it seems, the comparative is formed using "that" in lieu of "than" (e.g., he was greater that the other guy). They also have a big problem with irregular verbs (e.g., I would have wrote but ...). Add to this tons of typos, omitted words and other major grammar mistakes in every single article that this newspaper prints, and you know why I am not a fan.To their linguistic shortcomings, and generally lousy writing style, you......
It appears, from recent reports, that Canwest is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy protection. Debt-laden Canwest Global Communications Corp, Canada's biggest media company, may face bankruptcy as the weak economy wreaks havoc on its stable of television stations and newspapers, and buyers for its assets fail to materialize. Canwest, publisher of the National Post daily newspaper, has said it will try to exit non-core businesses and is considering the sale of five conventional TV stations. But analysts say there may not be any prospective purchasers waiting in the wings. Canwest is trying to unload its E! Canada channels,......
Back in Toronto in the early days, one station I used to watch quite frequently was CHCH out of Hamilton, Ontario. Independently owned at the time, that is, not part of any of the major broadcast conglomerates, it stood out as a superstation with relatively reasonable alternative viewing to the major broadcast networks CTV and Global TV. One of the programs I enjoyed was a daily phone-in show around lunchtime dealing with the political and social issues of the day. (Yours truly was a frequent caller.) The little station that could was bought by Canwest in 2000, and this marks......
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by Werner Patels In 2008, the Canadian TV networks went before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to demand more money. To be exact, this money was to come from TV consumers like you and me. Just like specialty cable channels, which get a share of the subscription fees paid to the cable companies, the broadcast networks wanted to partake of that "generous" deal as well. As things stand right now, the CRTC has rejected their demand, and rightly so: as off-air broadcast networks, they are supposed to fund their operations from commercials only. It is also a fact......
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As Warren Kinsella recounts, the National Post and Canwest are in dire straits. What really seems to be dragging them down, though, is the National Post, because most of the other Canwest papers, such as the Calgary Herald, are doing just fine. The National Post has made a number of mistakes – too many to list them all. One thing, though, is that their newspaper is given over to single issues way too often. If you, as a reader, don't care about the specific issue, then you might just as well toss the entire paper of that day into...
After the recent announcement that the National Post will no longer be available in Manitoba and Saskatchewan comes this "insider tip" that the newspaper's vendor boxes will disappear in Ottawa, the nation's capital: You will no longer be able to buy copies of the National Post out of a vendor box in Ottawa as of Midnight tonight. I've heard this from two sources, one being this anonymous commenter on Bourrie's site, the other an Ottawa area resident (via private e-mail) who helpfully suggests that the boxes be converted to ice-cream machines. Today, the Calgary Herald announced a "merger", effective...
Bad news for people in Saskatchewan and Manitoba: The Winnipeg Free Press has returned to doorsteps and newspaper boxes after a 16-day strike ended earlier this week, but the National Post won't be showing up alongside it. The Post is printed by the Free Press for circulation in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but the national paper's owner, Winnipeg's David Asper, has decided to cut the paper's availability in the two provinces. Home delivery is being eliminated, as are print editions of the paper on weekdays. The printed version of the paper will only be available in stores on Saturdays in...
by Werner Patels I was brought up to appreciate the value of newspapers. Even as a little boy, I would be the first in my family to go through the morning newspapers. This is something that has stuck with me, and today I read three newspapers every day. For a lover and aficionado of newspaper like me, it is almost heart-breaking to read stories predicting the demise of newspapers. As much as I love the Internet and what it has done for us – this very site would not exist if it were not for the World Wide Web...
OttawaWatch has gone on Canwest deathwatch, it seems. THURSDAY UPDATE: Canwest was at $2.35 this morning, another new low. A month ago, it traded at $3.60, which was a 52-week low. Indeed, the company has seen better days (such as when Lord Conrad Black was still in charge of the National Post and not unfairly detained in a prison). The drop in share price is caused by several factors. Canwest's TV operations are not among the most popular in Canada. Global TV has one of the most unreliable and most viewer-unfriendly schedules of all broadcast networks, and its secondary...
A while back, I reported about ongoing delivery problems with my two CanWest newspapers, Calgary Herald and National Post.
Now, a CanWest employee tried to post the following comment:[...] It's pretty ignorant for you to rant on like that when you don't even know what the situation is - or better yet you know what it is and are still going to be ignorant about it. I think that if you are that upset about the service you should save those poor representatives your attitude, cancel the sub and take yourself to the store to buy it. So there.
Commenter name: LynnCommenter email: daisygiesbrecht@hotmail.com IP address: 204.187.154.49Posted: 12:42 PM (Calgary Time), November 7, 2007Needless to say that I reported this CanWest employee. Since she posted the comment using the CanWest server,...
In view of declining circulation figures for Canadian newspapers, it is surprising that an employee of CanWest would actually advise a reader to cancel his subscription.
The National Post has actually suffered big losses: 3.7% on weekdays and 6.5% on weekends. You'd think they'd put more effort into retaining business, instead of posting insulting and unprofessional comments to a customer's blog.
With that kind of attitude, the National Post will be out of business soon. No wonder that Andrew Coyne has jumped ship to become national editor for Maclean's instead.
What is more, the National Post won't make any real money and lose even more in circulation as long as they have this guy "writing" for......
Last year during Raise a Reader Day I was able to meetup with Marc Chouinard and Trevor Linden. We flashed smiles, took some pictures, and signed some papers. Once again this year, Canucks organization members, players, firefighters, policemen and local politicians were out on street corners downtown handing out newspapers by donation.
The Raise-a-Reader campaign was created by The Vancouver Sun in 1997 to increase awareness of literacy and raise money to fund children’s literacy programs. Since our inception, Raise-a-Reader Vancouver has raised over almost $3.45 million in 10 years in support of children’s literacy initiatives throughout British Columbia. [Canada.com]
There weren’t as many Canucks players out and about but I was able to see Henrik Sedin, Kevin Bieksa,...
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Global TV & E! (formerly: CH) have announced their lineup for the 2007 fall season. Well, actually, they have only announced the US shows they have just bought in Hollywood (much easier than producing your own Canadian content, eh?).
In previous articles, I have already commented on the new US shows premiering on American networks in the fall and concluded that most of them are rubbish, except, one would hope, the US remake of the British hit Blackpool known as Viva Laughlin (note to American readers: in the American press, Blackpool is always referred to as Viva Blackpool, but that's not right; that was merely the name given to it in the US, but there's no "viva" in the original British title of the show).
Global has acquired the rights to Viva Laughlin as well as the new version of...